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@GreenSkyOverMe that's a rude thing to call his mother! 😂

@DJGummikuh while this dog is smaller than him, it's one of the bigger dogs that lives within a few miles of here for sure, and it has more fighting spirit than Odin

Odin down at the pond

Unfortunately, he’s looking so alert because a dog who’s picked a fight with him before just trotted around the corner and stopped dead in its tracks. Odin clearly remembered, because he actually growled, which he’s done like twice in his life.

We were able to break them up safely

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Mila x Odin 4ever #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

@filippo with a manufacture date so you know when the luck starts to wear off

how it started / how it’s going

March 6th 2024 / March 10th 2026

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

@GhostOnTheHalfShell aiui paper was much cheaper in China than in Europe. And ink was (and is) just charcoal+glue. You can get a traditional handmade ink stick for like $2 and the videos of their manufacture are very satisfying, it looks like black taffy candy

@simon_lepuissant I don’t know what “Mr. Nobody” means in this context but we’re talking, like, the top five most famous and important books in the ancient Chinese cultural sphere, such as the Analects of Confucius. Calligraphy exemplars could be anything.

@simon_lepuissant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiping_Stone_Classics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaicheng_Stone_Classics

image search "Chinese rubbings" for many many examples of the paper transfer

Cool History Fact of the night

Before woodblock printing (which was extensively used in China well before the west), there was a very clever, effective way to mass-reproduce the most important texts.

A few different times in imperial China, stone tablets of the most important books were commissioned. Anyone could walk up and look at them, but more importantly: anyone could lay a wet piece of paper over them and then gently rub ink over the paper, which would create a copy of white text on a black background.(And unlike printing, nothing needs to be done backwards.)

And if you were a famous enough calligrapher, you'd be asked to write onto a stone so someone else could chisel out your handwriting exactly, and then copies could be mass-reproduced as teaching examples.

(and I'm fascinated by how the stone fragment here is 1800 years old but the writing style is already extremely legible to me. It still uses the X-style 五 but is otherwise very Normal)

#classicalchinese #typography #printing #handwriting

if you want to @ me about how akshually it was probably a DRONE not a MISSILE, then no matter how good a grade you got in ballistic impact analysis, you're getting an F in The Point

@ferricoxide I think it's "Middle East – Central"

@HeNeArXn presumably the missile was not aimed directly at the data center but at something nearby. If your neighbor is exploded off the face of the earth by a missile and your power generator is taken out by the kinetic impact, you have been struck by a missile, you’re just luckily alive enough to complain about it

I am sick and very out of it, as you might be able to tell by how I initially characterized a screenshot with a timestamp in March written right on it as February

June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”

March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

@CodingItWrong @vga256 there’s no reason a responsive design can’t be unique or quirky. It’s just that the web became vastly more corporate.

(my own Classical Chinese website is based on a responsive template but customized to make it more artistic https://厄.net/classicalchinese/ )

@whitequark some people have a porn folder, I have a cool looking circuit boards folder, you made the cut

@mcc unfortunately there’s not really a good solution to this problem and Android, like everyone else, just has to pick a resolution method and stick with it. If you’ve heard of “Han Unification,” well it sounds like something that happened violently in 2200 BC but actually it happened quite recently in a Unicode meeting room and it causes this exact specific intractable issue

@Dio9sys me at 7:30 am: ahh what a lovely morning to read a hang on let me get my dictionary.

@whitequark Knuckles is gonna start flying around your RAM